Migraña y ritmo delta intermitente de máximo anterior (FIRDA): un reporte de caso y revisión de tema

Abstract

Introduction

Migraine sometimes coexist with epilepsy. The electroencephalography correlation about the migraine patients had found the presence of frontal intermittent rhythmic delta activity (FIRDA) its recognition has diagnostic and therapeutic implications.

Clinical case

38 years old women with a history of migraine with aura with an increase of its frequency and intensity in association with episodes of anterograde amnesia, confusion and temporal and spatial disorientation besides paresthesias, a 4 hours video-electroencephalograph showed FIRDA trains.

Conclusions

The relation among migraine and FIRDA has been controversial, recently it is stablished as a cortical dysfunction of medial structures associated with attention and awareness state.